HP launches a unified cloud storage solution based on 3PAR

HP has installed its Ibrix X9300 scale-out file storage System on 3PAR array products, allowing customers to use the 3PAR T series and F-series array file storage protocols and their automated streamlined configuration, automated management and multi-tenant features.

3PAR once owned a NAS controller device based on exanet products, but it never focused on that area. (Exanet later went bankrupt and its assets were bought by Dell. Supported protocols including CIFS, FTP, HTTP, and NFS, HP now offers customers a unified cloud storage solution based on 3PAR.

HP also announced the introduction of a Storage Provisioning Manager tool for the Bladesysytem matrix. The tool can directly configure 3PAR storage resources for applications running on the BladeSystem matrix server. HP says it can increase the utilization of BladeSystem matrix storage devices by up to 50%.

HP also points out that with this bladesystem matrix integration product, 3PAR storage devices can be managed as part of HP Cloudsystem, which helps customers reduce the deployment of cloud applications from a few days to several minutes, increasing the operational efficiency of storage management by 10 times times. At the same time reduce storage costs by up to 50%.

HP said the HP-UX server now fully supports 3PAR of storage, and since it completed its purchase of 3PAR a few months ago, the company has trained over 10,000 sales and service employees for 3PAR storage products, including HP's own employees, Also includes the channel partner's employees.

What HP wants to say is that it is going very well with the integration of 3PAR storage devices with their existing products.

Hewlett-Packard today also announced the launch of other products, including the P48000g2 SAN with the san/iq9.0 interface, which is said to support a 5 times-fold increase in the number of virtual machines per volume. HP said it was also the first San product to be fully integrated with HP BladeSystem. It is installed inside the BladeSystem c7000 chassis, Hewlett-Packard said san/iq9.0 enhanced VAAI support because it unloaded many features from the ESX server to P4800, so it was able to increase the number of virtual machines supported by 5 times times.

HP's own data De-duplication product Storeonce comes with a new high-end product, d2d4324, which has an initial capacity of 96TB, However, it can store up to 1.4PB of backup data, and the actual data de-duplication ratio is 20 higher than the 1.d2d4324 performance of the previous high-end d2d4312 66%.

HP also said it is now investing in low-end storage products and is likely to launch a new P2000 G3 MSA in the near future.

Finally, HP announced the introduction of a E5000 master information Transmission system for Exchange Server 2010. It consolidates the configuration wizards for servers, storage devices, OS, and Exchange Server 2010 into a single device. HP says it can increase the speed of Exchange Server 2010 by up to 75%.

HP P4800G2 San has a starting price of € 99500, which is now on sale. HP D2dbackup system's starting price is € 6300 and is now on sale. The same is true of E5000.

The starting price for the E5300 with 500 mailboxes is € 26930. The starting price for the E5500 with 1000 mailboxes is € 31065.